Abstract
In the first Annual Review of Psychology chapter since 1977 devoted exclusively to work motivation, we examine progress made in theory and research on needs, traits, values, cognition, and affect as well as three bodies of literature dealing with the context of motivation: national culture, job design, and models of person-environment fit. We focus primarily on work reported between 1993 and 2003, concluding that goal-setting, social cognitive, and organizational justice theories are the three most important approaches to work motivation to appear in the last 30 years. We reach 10 generally positive conclusions regarding predicting, understanding, and influencing work motivation in the new millennium.
Keywords
PsychologyWork motivationAffect (linguistics)Social psychologyContext (archaeology)Employee motivationWork (physics)CognitionGoal theoryIndustrial and organizational psychologySelf-determination theoryOrganizational justiceSocial cognitive theoryFocus (optics)Social cognitionCognitive psychologyOrganizational commitment
MeSH Terms
AffectCognitionEmploymentFeedbackGoalsHumansMotivationOrganizational CulturePsychological TheoryResearchSocial ControlInformalSocial Justice
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- 56
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- 1
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- 485-516
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- 1315
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Gary P. Latham,
Craig C. Pinder
(2004).
Work Motivation Theory and Research at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century.
Annual Review of Psychology
, 56
(1)
, 485-516.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.142105
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- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.142105
- PMID
- 15709944